2<i2 The Journey Bach to Fort Hope. [May, isee. 



li water sky was clearly seen by all the company underneath the dark 

 nimbus clouds, East Northeast. 



The traveling- on the 7th was under the disadvantage of a snow- 

 squall, which overtook them at noon. The lead was taken by 

 the Pell}" Bay natives. As soon as Hall came up with old Kok-lee- 

 ar)ig-)tan (a cripple), he took him and Too-koo-li-too on his own 

 sledge, and walked by their side. Too-koo-li-too had with her as 

 g-ifts from the strange natives, tw^o pairs of scissors, a cap-box, and 

 some shot that came from Ross's Victory, done up in the skin of a 

 deer's heart. The distance made before 2.15 p. m. was almost the 

 same with that of the 30tli of April on going up. A prominent group 

 of hills, called Kig-loo-a-te, was seen bearing south 72° west from the 

 forty-third encampment, and other high land called Shoung-noo-gua 

 to the nortlnvest ; a ravine divides the two. The higli land extends 

 back nearly a mile from the low coast. The temperature was now 

 much higher; the thermometer, hanging on the shady side of the sledge 

 and affected by reflection, read 36°. All day, the snow was deep and 

 soft, and the ice completely worn off from the shoeing of the sledges, 

 so tliat scarcely two miles an liour on the average could be made. 



Tlie coast-line was more closely followed on the travel of the 8th 

 and Htli, and was found to be very irregular and generally low. At 

 <.>iie point a ridge composed of sand, clay, and shingle only 4^ feet in 

 heijrht 1» Miked to those travelino- on the sea-ice "like a considerable 

 mount."* l-"rom Ca})e Weynton to Cape Lady Pelly, this low land, 

 mostly consisting of frozen mud, was without snow, and appeared 

 to have Ijcen so tln-ough the winter; some patches having thawed, 

 loniiin^'- soft imid. In tlic frozen mud were many fossils, of which 

 Ar-inoa brougiit in Ironi his took-too hunt a fine lot, and the wife of the 



